Semantic Processing and its Disorders
Monday, June 29th (SISSA, Big Meeting Room, 7th floor)
SESSION 1
Chairpersons: Elisabetta Làdavas & Carlo Semenza
9:30-10:15 Raffaella Rumiati “How is food represented in the brain?”
10:15-11:00 Morris Moscovitch “The interplay between episodic memory and semantic
memory: Evidence from neuropsychology and neuroimaging”
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Alex Martin “Food for Thought: The GRAPES model of concept
representation in the brain”
12:15-14:00 Lunch
SESSION 2
Chairpersons: Giuseppe Sartori & Lisa Cipolotti
14:00-14:45 Gabriella Vigliocco “Learning and representing abstract concepts”
14:45-15:30 Lorraine Tyler “How do we understand what we see?”
15:30-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:00 David Plaut “The dynamics of Semantic Activation”
17:00-17:45 Alfonso Caramazza “Object knowledge: Domains and attributes”
Tuesday, June 30th (SISSA, Big Meeting Room, 7th floor)
SESSION 3
Chairpersons: Marlene Behrmann & William Marslen-Wilson
9:30-10:15 Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini “Neural basis of semantic processing is semantic
dementia”
10:15-11:00 Matt Lambon-Ralph “Convergent evidence on the neural basis of semantic
representation"
11:00-11.30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Caterina Silveri “What is semantic in semantic dementia?”
12:15-13:00 Conclusive remarks
13:00-14:00 Lunch
end of the meeting